can u give me the source please?
2007-12-09 01:14:17 · 8 answers · asked by The Snail 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Not proven, but the chances of infection is low.
1) The Mac virus defence system Might be strong.
2) Less people use Mac, so less people want to make virus for Mac. Better infect the Windows because many people will suffer then.
2007-12-09 01:54:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No!!! Try surfing the internet with articles relating to virus attacks on Macs. The reason why Apple is so muzzled with their virus free computers is that no hacker is interested to develop a virus for a computer that has less impact on the globabl economy. Take Windows for instance... Ever since Windows has been accepted globally and integrated into their networks, hackers seize the oportunity to develop either a worm or virus to exploit holes and retrieve valuable information.
Macs are not that virus-free as you think. I'm part of an organization of hackers and we use Windows operating systems as our main weapons. We successfully developed hundreds of viruses and transfered them to Mac Leopard through email and it worked like a charm. We gave names such as "maccrusher", "trojan_improved_gallion" and more. We even exploited the Leopard operating system for holes and guess what? There are a few that Apple has yet to patch up and we plan to exploit it even further. Our organization has no plans to apply our skills for evil. We are just regular college students doing research on how to make a virus.
P.S. The effect of virus maccrusher destroyed the foundation of the Mac Leopard system leaving it crippled beyond repair. Only a true hacker could undo the damage by reinstalling everything but maccrusher made sure that uninstalling the original operating system would be virtually impossible. So the hard drive containing the original operating system has to be disposed of. Plus, we programed maccrusher to spread to any system (including Windows or Linux) if repairs on the hard drive are to be made. The time for maccrusher to disable the Mac Leopard was 3 minutes.
2007-12-09 01:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by Marc G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi Dol, some day the Mac would be contaminated with a pandemic, even nevertheless it hasn't for the previous six years that i've got been utilising Mac OS X. on a similar time as Vista have been given computing device viruses previously it became even formally released. to place in any application on a Mac, the consumer needs to first variety in his administrative password. application would not vehicle-deploy like it could with domicile windows. it fairly is the main reason that the Mac hasn't been contaminated with a pandemic. actual, there have been some "information-of-thought" viruses stepped forward by anti-virus application companies just to instruct that it could take place. even nevertheless, in maximum cases, you nonetheless had to variety on your administrative password. Yeah, that isn't artwork. None of those viruses have been released to the Mac community. So I say, nonetheless no viruses. Plus, we adore our Macintosh builders and thankfully pay them what ever they ask for stable purposes. A Macintosh developer would under no circumstances create such an abomination to his prominent computing device. on a similar time as domicile windows builders basic strategies to create straightforward script viruses their first 3 hundred and sixty 5 days of programming classification. --Rick
2016-11-15 00:24:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mac can get a virus but the characteristics of the MAC OS is like UNIX the programs run pretty much independent of the shell or core OS. (it's hard to explain) Windows will share parts (or fragments) of files for speed. That's why you have to defragment windows ever so often. Unix based systems don't fragment files. so if you get a virus in one program on a MAC, UNIX, LINUX etc. it will only affect that program, with windows sharing chunk's of files/programs the virus will eventually be spread to any program that shares part of the infected program. That spreads from the newly infected program to any program/file that interacts with the newly infected program
2007-12-09 01:41:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 2 or 3 weeks ago Apple released 41 security patches. They are just vulnerable as a Windows installation.
2007-12-09 01:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by Ron M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no system is perfect. There are less virus for Mac if compare to PC. Doesn't mean Mac is virus proof.
2007-12-09 02:09:59 · answer #6 · answered by SpookyFox 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm, seems no operating system is completely invulnerable, even linux is targetted on occasion
http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/Macintosh_Viruses_and_Mac_Virus_Resources.htm
2007-12-09 01:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by Delfin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when man made its also posibel to destroy/invade it.
thus NO
2007-12-09 01:22:23 · answer #8 · answered by peternaarstig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋